A review by booker201314
The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep: Simple Solutions for Kids from Birth to 5 Years by Harvey Karp

2.0

There were some good pieces of information in here that are backed by the literature, but overall, this was largely a disappointment. I have a strong reservation when reading books where the author is comfortable including swoths of information and "factual" statements without discussing the evidence in better detail, especially when there is so much written about baby sleep out there. Why would I trust your recommendations over someone else's conflicting information. I loved his book the happiest baby about calming infants from crying because it was easy to implement and evaluate if it works and it does! But to try methods that are likely to have long term impacts without providing more information is too risky. The author does not always do this, but It bothers me to no end when he, or, anyone for that matter, would write something like, "the research shows..." And then does not site or elaborate on a study. Or, equally as bad, makes a statement like "newborns don't have a circadian rhythm..." without elaboration on where or how we know this. Additionally a lot of the information in this book seems like a repeat from his other book, the happiest baby on the block, which seems like he just copied his idea to sell another book when he should have just included an additional 3-4 chapters of sleep in his other book. I would reccomend happiest baby on the block, I would skip this one about sleep and read other books like John Medinas Brain rules for babies, which includes better information on sleep.